REPUBLICANS: The President Picks a Place

Richard Nixon looked over the list of
cities bidding for his party's 1972 convention and did not like what he
saw: Chicago, Miami Beach. Houston, Louisville, San Francisco. Said the
President: "Let's get some more options. Let's get San Diego in there."
Thus a city was suddenly on the list that initially did not care to be
the site of a political conventionone that had fewer hotel rooms than
other contenders, did not have adequate press space and refused to put
together the cash guarantee the other cities had proffered. To the...